Jordan, NY – The Jordan-Elbridge Central School District will spend $1.3 million to upgrade lighting, boilers and other systems to make its buildings energy efficient.

The project comes with a guarantee from C & S Cos., the engineers designing the upgrades, that if the changes don't save money the company will make up the difference.

"We'll have to break out the checkbook," said Joe Lorah, the project's construction manager for C&S Cos.

The district expects to save $74,000 in the first year of the project, and $1 million in energy costs over the 18 years it pays off the money borrowed to do the work.

The district has just completed a $21.9 million project to renovate its buildings, coming in $1.45 million under budget, said Superintendent James Froio. The state allowed it to pull out all of the project’s energy-related items and bundle them into a $1.3 million separate energy performance contract that makes Jordan-Elbridge eligible for state aid, he said.